Kashmir: rebuilding an identity
In Kashmir, the `hibernation', which an Urdu poet once described, is now ending. There is a scent of change in the air, as a devastated people eagerly interpret the smallest of signs as portents of a new beginning. ANANYA JAHANARA KABIR on the seeds of a possible blossoming, especially cast by the State's young people.

Issues

HEALTH ISSUESDoctors of the world, unite
Reaching medicare to those who have little or no access to it is one of the primary goals of healthcare professionals today. KAVERY NAMBISAN comments on a medical conference held in Hull recently.

INTERVIEWTheir vision for prosperity
Malay and Arindam Chaudhuri have a prescription for harmonious economic growth in India. SUBASH JEYAN finds out more.
IN THE NEWSAn Indian sonata
From 1965, John Keay has been observing the variety and diversity of India, portraying it in his books with a good-humoured and sympathetic attitude. S RAMACHANDER talks to the "freelance historian" on how he set foot on the path to the Orient.
FACE TO FACESinging his own tune
Tarasme Singh, lead singer of Stereo Nation, on his singing and successes.
IN CONVERSATIONBreak from the past
Kazakh cinema, after the break from the Soviet cinematic ideology, has thrown up quite a few surprises.

Lifestyle

ART`You can't please all'
In the past few weeks, the media does not seem to have generated any significant amount of column space to mark the passing away of Bhupen Khakhar, the `enfant terrible of Indian art'. In striking contrast has been the attitude of fellow artists who idolised him, says SADANAND MENON.
ART`When I'm telling the truth, there's no restraint'
Travelling to Vadodara in April this year, SADANAND MENON sat down for a chat with Bhupen Khakhar, the day his radiation treatment began. Khakhar was on a high. Later, it turned out to be the last interview he gave before his passing away on August 8.
TIME-OUTHaven in the wild
On arrival, you'll be greeted with fruits and chocolates in your room. Your abode for the next few days will be among awesomely huge boulders, next to a rain-and-spring-water swimming pool, and in the middle of the Sinharaja rain forest, says NEELAM MATHEWS.